Investors Business Daily Op-Ed: “Regulation: As businesses struggle to stay open and lay off workers, the Environmental Protection Agency is preparing one of the biggest hiring binges in America outside of Google. Good news? Hardly.

Nearly 15,000 people work at the EPA now — making the agency a major national employer. This also lets its tentacles grow even more intrusive.”

“Let’s just say that the prevailing priority at EPA is to find ways to slow or shut down factories, not help open them,” says Myron Ebell, a scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “The rules on carbon emissions, methane, coal plants and others have cost the economy tens of thousands of jobs.”

Opinion: It is interesting to watch how secular writers almost get it right. They see the monster of government growing exponentially, yet without the lens of scripture the end game stops short.

In yesterday’s guest post by our friend Steve, some of the major supporters/financiers who are involved in the global warming/climate change/sustainability hoax are listed:

The United Nations

UNESCO

Common Core financier Bill Gates

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Bilderberg summit attendees

The Vatican

The great prophet Daniel had a dream of four great beasts, in which he interpreted four final world empires also confirmed by Ezekiel:

The first three: a lion with eagle’s wings, a bear, and a leopard with four heads, correspond to

The fourth, which Daniel 7:7 said was so wicked there is no animal comparison, will trample the residue (earth) with its feet.

This fourth beast corresponds to Nebuchadnezzar’s vision of the two legs of the Roman Empire (Rome/Constantinople) and the ten toes (kingdoms) of a revived form of the Roman Empire in the last days. (Daniel 2:41)

Daniel’s 4th beast needs a launching pad and a cause: the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21 or CMP11, to be held in Paris, France November 30- December 11. 2015 is the launch, and the theme of Sustainability should provide the cause.

The New American: Under the guise of battling the Islamic State (ISIS) and jihadists on the Internet, the European Union’s self-styled “police” force, dubbed “Europol,” is launching a new bureaucracy to supposedly combat “online propaganda” and “extremism” with censorship.

The so-called EU “Internet Referral Unit” (IRU) will be charged with monitoring the World Wide Web, taking down and flagging “extremist” material, providing information and analysis to EU member governments, and looking forward to the future. While details of the unit remain hazy, critics are expressing concerns — both about the EU usurpation of the awesome power to unilaterally censor the Internet, and with the constantly changing definition of “extremism” to cover increasingly broad swaths of the population.

The controversial EU censorship “unit” was formally born on July 1 to “combat terrorist propaganda and related violent extremist activities on the internet,” Europol said in a press release without defining “terrorist,” “propaganda,” or “extremist activities.”

Opinion: I did a little checking as to how the EU defines extremism: in a paper by europa.eu, the words extremism and populism both left and right are interchangeable:

“Although populism is difficult to define, it shows several recurrent features:-

it promotes direct democracy, claims a direct link between the government and the people and rejects the established political system;-

it offers immediate and demagogical solutions to people’s day to day problems;–

it spreads simplistic and antagonistic images such as the sovereign nation, the “sane” people vs. the “corrupted” and “technocratic” elites;

it idealises the nation and its perceived traditions, fuelling the criticism of any supranational political system;

it holds an anti-globalisation discourse aimed at protecting vulnerable people from the consequences of the competitive capitalist market.”

It’s those last two bullets that extend all the way to Christian anti-globalist websites like … gulp, this one.

Bloomberg News: “The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index has lost 28 percent since its peak on June 12, the worst selloff in two decades. About $3.9 trillion in market valuation has evaporated, more than the total annual output of Germany—the world’s fourth-largest economy—and 16 times Greece’s gross domestic product. The benchmark is still up 82 percent in the past year, the most among the world’s major markets.

As shares tumbled, companies rushed to apply for trading suspension. More than 1,400 companies stopped trading on mainland exchanges, locking sellers out of 25% of the market. The China Securities Regulatory Commission also banned major shareholders, corporate executives, and directors from selling stakes in listed companies for six months.”

Control. I never thought this could happen on such a large scale and at the same time be so obvious . Governments and central bankers are in collusion to control markets.

It is very simple to do if you refuse sell orders, make short-selling illegal and suspend 1400 stocks from trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. It also makes it very easy to hide government scandals and their cover-ups when equity markets are being propped up by electronically created money – and the wealthy get much wealthier.

So when the four largest economies and their central bankers (USA, EU, China, Japan – not necessarily in that order) decide to end the bull market party, it will end in a big way:

There are several viewpoints among our readers on the timing of the Black Horse Rider of Revelation 6:5-6, as well as an interesting theory that the black horse has already appeared (The Seven Seals in Prophecy and in History).

And we have different opinions as to whether the rapture is pre or post-trib, but what is becoming abundantly clear is who will set the economic calamities in motion.

Investors Business Daily Op-Ed: “Socialism: Indebted nations of the world are applauding the “Oxi” vote against “austerity” in Greece not so much as a victory for the common man, but because they have plans to default on the billions they owe. Brace yourself. What we’re witnessing is the revenge of the debtors — socialist nations

Zero Hedge: “Under pressure from all sides (and most importantly from Mario Draghi who holds the fate of the Greek banking sector in his hands) Greece looks to have folded and is now set to accept an extension of its current bailout program. PM Alexis Tsipras now faces an uphill battle to unite Syriza around

JPost: “The US and Europe appear to be moving in different directions regarding the immediate future of the Mideast diplomatic process, with US President Barack Obama scaling back ambitions for a comprehensive deal, while the Europeans continue talking in terms of an overarching agreement. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday in Brussels on